October 14, 2013
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Our companions
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Geliefde Familie:
So yes, transfer calls
happened. I know that's what you want to hear first, so I'll just go ahead and
let ya know. My companion is going to Amsterdam. My companion is just awesome. Such a hard
worker. She's going to be the Sister Training Leader in that zone. I'm going to
miss her so much. My new companion is Zr Larson. She's Zr Hudson’s age in the
mission. And I think she's 21 also. Anyway, I'm staying in Groningen. Idk how
much longer, but for now, yay! Amsterdam uses only Metro, which I would
LOOOOOOVE, so I hope I get to go there too someday. Oh the Elders. My DL who
has been in Groningen with me the whole time and who is just great is going to
Apeldoorn to be the ZL with one of his old companions. And his replacement is
Elder Bonney from my group. He's cool and he was trained by the other ZL in
Apeldoorn so I bet they will fight about who gets to come to Groningen to
exchange. The other two Elders aren't changing. I'm going to miss Zr Hudson and
Elder Muse a lot, but they are needed elsewhere.
CHRIS GOT BAPTIZED! He
is amazing, people. We went to the house of a lady in our ward with him because
we needed a third woman to have a lesson with him, and he basically was telling
her that she needs to come to church because nothing is more important than
taking the sacrament. And then, I was sitting by him on Sunday, and the
lady went to bear her testimony and I leaned over and started saying something
to him about it and he was like, "yeah I know! She came!" It was
cool. He gets it. I want him to get the Priesthood soon. I was teaching him
more about it with another Sister (we were on exchanges) and he was like,
"Yeah, this is something I really want to be able to bring into a
family." And and and hahaha Zr Hudson was like, "yeeeeah, maybe I
won't ever get married." and he basically said, "did you not listen
to general conference? You have to." hahah. He gets it. I love it.
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| Chris! |
I will finish writing
later, we are about to have an epic nurf war with the elders. Love you guys!
Maybe you'll be awake when I am back.
I’m back:
Dear Dad, thanks for
taking me shooting. I know that's not the only reason I can hold my own in a
zombie nurf battle, but it was still really fun.
So we went to
Leeuwarden on Saturday because the senior sister is RSP and she needed help for
an activity. She and her husband leave Nederland tomorrow, I'm pretty sad about
it. Could you add her to the email list? thanks. Anyway, we could
only get a slow train back to Groningen, so we were going to be late for our
Chinese appointment (it is so hard to get him to admit he believes in God. I
KNOW he does though). So we were running out of the station to our bikes and they
were GONE. No, I have not gotten a new bike, by the way. So the city had taken
them because they were chained to a fence, and usually in Groningen that's okay
(especially because the station parking is completely full now that all the
students are back) but we parked them along the path that leads blind people, a
path that we had no idea existed. Of course they can take your bike on a
Saturday, but you can only pick it up on working days, so the whole weekend we
were on the bus because rental bikes were all gone. I'm telling you, now that
the students are back, Groningen is PACKED. But probably not even close to as
populated as like Rotterdam or something. So we went this morning to go get our
bikes and they were 25 euros to get back. I couldn't tell if this was an answer
to my prayer and I should just leave it, so I called the sister that's coming
here and she said she'd buy it from me even though I told her I didn't want it,
so I bought it back, but I may just end up keeping it. It's really not that bad
since the seat was raised. And here, you bike or die.
Speaking of, my
companion hit a girl on her bike today. After we got them back, we were going
to the church to email and she just head on hit someone. My companion of course
got up and started asking if the girl was okay, who was in tears, saying that
her knee had been hit out of place. A tearful hour filled with calling doctors
later, we walked out of her apartment (she is FINE, by the way) and were back
on our way.
I finally had real
Suriname food. It's delicious. Try to look up a recipe for roti.
One of our
investigators is a ghost buster. Idk, but he can feel spirits around him. I was
talking to him about grandpa and he said he was with me because I thought of
him. So that was pretty cool. And he said something about how he can feel
spirits who never had bodies. And I was like, "so they don't YET have
bodies?" in Nederlands, that's "nog niet?" and he said,
"nog nooit" meaning they will never have bodies. He says they're bad
spirits. Guess what, Gerrie, I believe in those spirits too. Wanna talk about
the Plan of Salvation?
Anyway, love you
people. So much. I'm kinda nervous for the next week, but then I realized it
was basically only because I don't know exactly how to get to our dinner appointment
on Wednesday, my first day with a new companion, but it'll be okay.
IK HOU VAN JULLIE.
Seriously, so much. Have a great week. Miss you guys,
Your Favorite Child
Don't worry kids, I'm
only the favorite because I'm on a mission.
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| Chris |
